Timeline of Worldwide School and Mass
Shootings

Gun-related tragedies in the U.S. and around the world

The following table lists the worldwide mass and school shootings from 1996 to
the present. Find the date, location, and a short description of each
incident.

Feb. 2, 1996Moses Lake, Wash.

Two students and one teacher killed,
one other wounded when 14-year-old Barry Loukaitis opened fire on
his algebra class.

March 13, 1996Dunblane, Scotland

16 children and one teacher killed at
Dunblane Primary School by Thomas Hamilton, who then killed himself.
10 others wounded in attack.

Feb. 19, 1997Bethel, Alaska

Principal and one student killed, two
others wounded by Evan Ramsey, 16.

March 1997Sanaa, Yemen

Eight people (six students and two
others) at two schools killed by Mohammad Ahman al-Naziri.

Oct. 1, 1997Pearl, Miss.

Two students killed and seven wounded
by Luke Woodham, 16, who was also accused of killing his mother. He
and his friends were said to be outcasts who worshiped Satan.

Dec. 1, 1997West Paducah, Ky.

Three students killed, five wounded by
Michael Carneal, 14, as they participated in a prayer circle at
Heath High School.

Dec. 15, 1997Stamps, Ark.

Two students wounded. Colt Todd, 14,
was hiding in the woods when he shot the students as they stood in
the parking lot.

March 24, 1998Jonesboro, Ark.

Four students and one teacher killed,
ten others wounded outside as Westside Middle School emptied during
a false fire alarm. Mitchell Johnson, 13, and Andrew Golden, 11,
shot at their classmates and teachers from the woods.

April 24, 1998Edinboro, Pa.

One teacher, John Gillette, killed,
two students wounded at a dance at James W. Parker Middle School.
Andrew Wurst, 14, was charged.

May 19, 1998Fayetteville, Tenn.

One student killed in the parking lot
at Lincoln County High School three days before he was to graduate.
The victim was dating the ex-girlfriend of his killer, 18-year-old
honor student Jacob Davis.

May 21, 1998Springfield, Ore.

Two students killed, 22 others wounded
in the cafeteria at Thurston High School by 15-year-old Kip Kinkel.
Kinkel had been arrested and released a day earlier for bringing a
gun to school. His parents were later found dead at home.

June 15, 1998Richmond, Va.

One teacher and one guidance counselor
wounded by a 14-year-old boy in the school hallway.

April 20, 1999Littleton, Colo.

14 students (including killers) and
one teacher killed, 23 others wounded at Columbine High School in
the nation's deadliest school shooting. Eric Harris, 18, and Dylan
Klebold, 17, had plotted for a year to kill at least 500 and blow up
their school. At the end of their hour-long rampage, they turned
their guns on themselves.

April 28, 1999Taber, Alberta, Canada

One student killed, one wounded at W.
R. Myers High School in first fatal high school shooting in Canada
in 20 years. The suspect, a 14-year-old boy, had dropped out of
school after he was severely ostracized by his classmates.

May 20, 1999Conyers, Ga.

Six students injured at Heritage High
School by Thomas Solomon, 15, who was reportedly depressed after
breaking up with his girlfriend.

Four students wounded as Seth Trickey,
13, opened fire with a 9mm semiautomatic handgun at Fort Gibson
Middle School.

Dec. 7, 1999Veghel, Netherlands

One teacher and three students wounded
by a 17-year-old student.

Feb. 29, 2000Mount Morris Township, Mich.

Six-year-old Kayla Rolland shot dead
at Buell Elementary School near Flint, Mich. The assailant was
identified as a six-year-old boy with a .32-caliber handgun.

March 2000Branneburg, Germany

One teacher killed by a 15-year-old
student, who then shot himself. The shooter has been in a coma ever
since.

March 10, 2000Savannah, Ga.

Two students killed by Darrell Ingram,
19, while leaving a dance sponsored by Beach High School.

May 26, 2000Lake Worth, Fla.

One teacher, Barry Grunow, shot and
killed at Lake Worth Middle School by Nate Brazill, 13, with
.25-caliber semiautomatic pistol on the last day of classes.

Sept. 26, 2000New Orleans, La.

Two students wounded with the same gun
during a fight at Woodson Middle School.

Jan. 17, 2001Baltimore, Md.

One student shot and killed in front
of Lake Clifton Eastern High School.

Jan. 18, 2001Jan, Sweden

One student killed by two boys, ages
17 and 19.

March 5, 2001 Santee, Calif.

Two killed and 13 wounded by Charles
Andrew Williams, 15, firing from a bathroom at Santana High
School.

March 7, 2001Williamsport, Pa.

Elizabeth Catherine Bush, 14, wounded
student Kimberly Marchese in the cafeteria of Bishop Neumann High
School; she was depressed and frequently teased.

March 22, 2001Granite Hills, Calif.

One teacher and three students wounded
by Jason Hoffman, 18, at Granite Hills High School. A policeman shot
and wounded Hoffman.

March 30, 2001Gary, Ind.

One student killed by Donald R. Burt,
Jr., a 17-year-old student who had been expelled from Lew Wallace
High School.

Nov. 12, 2001Caro, Mich.

Chris Buschbacher, 17, took two
hostages at the Caro Learning Center before killing himself.

Jan. 15, 2002New York, N.Y.

A teenager wounded two students at
Martin Luther King Jr. High School.

Feb. 19, 2002Freising, Germany

Two killed in Eching by a man at the
factory from which he had been fired; he then traveled to Freising
and killed the headmaster of the technical school from which he had
been expelled. He also wounded another teacher before killing
himself.

April 26, 2002Erfurt, Germany

13 teachers, two students, and one
policeman killed, ten wounded by Robert Steinhaeuser, 19, at the
Johann Gutenberg secondary school. Steinhaeuser then killed
himself.

April 29, 2002Vlasenica, Bosnia-Herzegovina

One teacher killed, one wounded by
Dragoslav Petkovic, 17, who then killed himself.

October 28, 2002Tucson, Ariz.

Robert S. Flores Jr., 41, a student at
the nursing school at the University of Arizona, shot and killed
three female professors and then himself.

April 14, 2003 New Orleans, La.

One 15-year-old killed, and three
students wounded at John McDonogh High School by gunfire from four
teenagers (none were students at the school). The motive was
gang-related.

April 24, 2003 Red Lion, Pa.

James Sheets, 14, killed principal
Eugene Segro of Red Lion Area Junior High School before killing
himself.

Sept. 24, 2003 Cold Spring, Minn.

Two students are killed at Rocori High
School by John Jason McLaughlin, 15.

Sept. 28, 2004Carmen
de Patagones, Argentina

Three students killed and 6 wounded by
a 15-year-old Argentininan student in a town 620 miles south of
Buenos Aires.

March 21, 2005Red
Lake, Minn.

Jeff Weise, 16, killed grandfather and
companion, then arrived at school where he killed a teacher, a
security guard, 5 students, and finally himself, leaving a total of
10 dead.

Nov. 8, 2005Jacksboro,
Tenn.

One 15-year-old shot and killed an
assistant principal at Campbell County High School and seriously
wounded two other administrators.

Aug. 24, 2006 Essex,
Vt.

Christopher Williams, 27, looking for
his ex-girlfriend at Essex Elementary School, shot two teachers,
killing one and wounding another. Before going to the school, he had
killed the ex-girlfriend's mother.

Sept. 13,
2006Montreal, Canada

Kimveer Gill, 25, opened fire with a
semiautomatic weapon at Dawson College. Anastasia De Sousa, 18, died
and more than a dozen students and faculty were wounded before Gill
killed himself.

Sept. 27, 2006 Bailey, Colo.

Adult male held six students hostage
at Platte Canyon High School and then shot and killed Emily Keyes,
16, and himself.

Sept. 29, 2006 Cazenovia, Wis.

A 15-year-old student shot and killed
Weston School principal John Klang.

Oct. 3, 2006Nickel
Mines, Pa.

32-year-old Carl Charles Roberts IV
entered the one-room West Nickel Mines Amish School and shot 10
schoolgirls, ranging in age from 6 to 13 years old, and then
himself. Five of the girls and Roberts died.

A 23-year-old Virginia Tech student, Cho Seung-Hui, killed two
in a dorm, then killed 30 more 2 hours later in a classroom
building. His suicide brought the death toll to 33, making the
shooting rampage the most deadly in U.S. history. Fifteen others
were wounded.

Sept. 21, 2007Dover, Del.

A Delaware State Univesity Freshman, Loyer D. Brandon, shot and
wounded two other Freshman students on the University campus.
Brandon is being charged with attempted murder, assault, reckless
engagement, as well as a gun charge.

Oct. 10, 2007Cleveland, Ohio

A 14-year-old student at a Cleveland high school, Asa H. Coon,
shot and injured two students and two teachers before he shot and
killed himself. The victims' injuries were not
life-threatening.

Nov. 7, 2007Tuusula, Finland

An 18-year-old student in southern Finland shot and killed five
boys, two girls, and the female principal at Jokela High School. At
least 10 others were injured. The gunman shot himself and died from
his wounds in the hospital.

Feb. 8, 2008Baton Rouge,
Louisiana

A nursing student shot and killed two women and then herself in
a classroom at Louisiana Technical College in Baton Rouge.

Feb. 11, 2008Memphis, Tennessee

A 17-year-old student at Mitchell High School shot and wounded a
classmate in gym class.

Feb. 12, 2008Oxnard, California

A 14-year-old boy shot a student at E.O. Green Junior High
School causing the 15-year-old victim to be brain dead.

Feb. 14, 2008DeKalb, Illinois

Gunman killed five students and then himself, and wounded 17
more when he opened fire on a classroom at Northern Illinois
University. The gunman, Stephen P. Kazmierczak, was identified as a
former graduate student at the university in 2007.

Sept. 23, 2008Kauhajoki, Finland

A 20-year-old male student shot and killed at least nine
students and himself at a vocational college in Kauhajok, 330km (205
miles) north of the capital, Helsinki.

Nov. 12, 2008Fort Lauderdale,
Florida

A 15-year-old female student was shot and killed by a classmate
at Dillard High School in Fort Lauderdale.

March 11, 2009Winnenden, Germany

Fifteen people were shot and killed at Albertville Technical
High School in southwestern Germany by a 17-year-old boy who
attended the same school.

April 30, 2009Azerbaijan, Baku

A Georgian citizen of Azerbaijani descent killed 12 students and staff at Azerbaijan State Oil Academy. Several others were wounded.

November 5, 2009Killeen, Texas

A shooting at the Fort Hood army post kills 13 and injures 29. Ten of those killed are military personnel, while one is a civilian. The alleged shooter is Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, an army psychiatrist, was shot four times by an officer on the scene, but he survived the attack.

Feb. 5, 2010Madison, Alabama

At Discovery Middle School, a ninth-grader was shot by
another student during a class change. The boy, whose name
was not released, pulled out a gun and shot Todd Brown in the head
while walking the hallway. Brown later died at Huntsville Hospital.

Feb. 12, 2010Huntsville, Alabama

During a meeting on campus, Amy Bishop, a biology professor, began shot her colleagues, killing three and wounding three others. A year earlier, Bishop had been denied tenure.

March 9, 2010Columbus, Ohio

A man opens fire at Ohio State University, killing two employees and wounding one other. The shooter had recently received an "unsatisfactory" job evaluation and was going to be fired on March 13.

Jan. 5, 2011Omaha, Nebraska

Two people were killed and two more injured in a shooting at Millard South High School. Shortly after being suspended from school, the shooter returned and shot the assistant principal, principal, and the school nurse. The shooter then left campus and took his own life.

Jan. 8, 2011 Tuscon, Arizona

Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was shot in an assassination attempt. At least 17 others are shot by a gunman, identified as Jared Lee Loughner, who opened fire on the congresswoman's constituent meeting outside a local grocery store. Six people are fatally wounded, including U.S. District Court Judge John Roll, and a young girl.

Jan. 5, 2011Houston, Texas

Two people opened fire during a Worthing High School powder-puff football game. One former student died. Five other people were injured.

April 7, 2011Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

A 23-year-old former student returned to his public elementary school in Rio de Janeiro and began firing, killing 12 children and seriously wounding more than a dozen others, before shooting himself in the head. While Brazil has seen gang-related violence in urban areas, this was the worst school shooting the country has ever seen.

May 10, 2011San Jose, California

Three people were killed in a parking garage at San Jose State University. Two former students were found dead on the fifth floor of the garage. A third, the suspected shooter, died later at the hospital.

July 22, 2011 Tyrifjorden, Buskerud, Norway

A gunman disguised as a policeman opened fire at a camp for young political activists on the island of Utoya. The gunman kills 68 campers, including personal friends of Prime Minister Stoltenberg. Police arrested Anders Behring Breivik, a 32-year-old Norwegian who had been been linked to an anti-Islamic group.

Dec. 8, 2011Blacksburg, Virginia

A Virginia Tech police officer was shot and killed by a 22-year old student of Radford University. The shooting took place in a parking lot on Virginia Tech's campus.

Feb. 10, 2012Walpole, New Hampshire

A 14-year-old student shot himself in front of 70 fellow students.

Feb. 27, 2012Chardon, Ohio

At Chardon High School, a former classmate opened fire, killing three students and injuring six. Arrested shortly after the incident, the shooter said that he randomly picked students.

March 6, 2012Jacksonville, Florida

Shane Schumerth, a 28-year-old teacher at Episcopal High School, returned to the campus after being fired and shot and killed the headmistress, Dale Regan, with an assault rifle.

March 19, 2012Toulouse, France

Mohammed Merah, a French man of Algerian descent, shot and killed a rabbi, two of his children, and another child at a Jewish school. Police believe he had earlier shot and killed three paratroopers. Merah said he was a member of Al Qaeda and that he was seeking revenge for the killing of Palestinian children.

April 2, 2012 Oakland, Calif.

One Goh, a 43-year-old former student at Oikos University, a Christian school populated by mostly Korean and Korean-Americans, opened fire on the campus, killing seven people and wounding several others.

July 20, 2012 Aurora, Colo.

During a midnight screening of the film The Dark Knight Rises, a gunman opens fire on the crowded theater. At least 12 people are killed and 38 others are wounded. The suspect, James Holmes, set off a smoke device in the front of the theater before opening fire. Directly after the incident, Holmes, age 24, was arrested in a parking lot behind the theater.

August 5, 2012 Oak Creek, Wis.

A gunman opens fire at a Sikh temple, killing six people and wounding three. Police shot and killed the suspect, Wade Michael Page, after the attack. Page, a neo-Nazi, served in the U.S. Army from 1992 to 1998.

December 11, 2012 Portland, Ore.

Jacob Tyler Roberts, 22, opened fire in the Clackamas Town Center mall, located 11 miles from downtown Portland, Oregon. Using an AR-15 semiautomatic assault rifle, Roberts killed two people and wounded one other. He then took his own life.

December 14, 2012 Newtown, Conn.

Adam Lanza, 20, killed 20 children and six others at the Sandy Hook Elementary School. He killed his mother, Nancy, at her home prior to the massacre at the school. Lanza committed suicide after the rampage. The shooting was the second deadliest in U.S. history, behind the 2007 shooting at Virginia Polytechnic Institute that claimed 32 people.

September 16, 2013 Washington, DC

Former Navy reservist Aaron Alexis, 34, killed 12 people at the Washington Navy Yard, near the U.S. Capitol. He was killed in a shootout with police. Alexis was employed at the base by a military subcontractor.

September 21, 2013 Nairobi, Kenya

Shabab militants, who are based in Somalia, attacked an upscale mall, killing nearly 70 people and wounding about 175. The siege lasted for three days, with persistent fighting between government troops and militants. The attack was meticulously planned, and the militants proved to be challenging for the government to dislodge from the Westgate mall.

October 21, 2013 Sparks, Nevada

A middle-school student shoots and kills Michael Landsberry, a math teacher at Sparks Middle School. The student then shot himself in front of other students.

April 2, 2014 Killeen, Texas

An Iraq war veteran opens fire at the Fort Hood Army base and kills three people before turning the gun on himself. At least 16 people are injured. The suspect, Army Specialist Ivan Lopez, was being evaluated for post-traumatic stress disorder, according to the Pentagon. Another fatal shooting at the base took place in 2009.

May 23, 2014 Isla Vista, California

A gunman, identified as Elliot Rodger, kills six people and wounds 13 others in Isla Vista, Calif., a small town near Santa Barbara. He stabs three men in his apartment before driving to locations throughout the town where he kills three students from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Before the rampage, Rodger, age 22, posts a video called "Elliot Rodger's Retribution" on his YouTube Channel and writes a 137-page manifesto. In both, he expresses his anger over being rejected by women and his plans for revenge.

June 5, 2014 Seattle, Washington

A man armed with a shotgun opens fire at Seattle Pacific University, killing one student and wounding two others. The suspect, Aaron Ybarra, 26, is not a student at the college. He was subdued by a student security guard and taken into custody.

October 24, 2014 Marysville, Washington

Jaylen Ray Fryberg, a popular freshman at Marysville-Pilchuck High School, opens fire in the cafeteria, killing two students and critically wounding three others before turning the gun on himself.

January 7, 2015 Paris, France

Three masked gunmen storm the office of Charlie Hebdo, a satirical weekly magazine, and kill 12 people, including the paper's top editors and cartoonists, as well as two police officers. The provocative magazine is known for publishing charged cartoons that satirized Islamic terrorists and the Prophet Muhammad.